CooksTime vs
Quickbooks vs Restaurant365 vs Margin Edge vs XtraChef

Our Reporting
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Income Statement
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Balance Sheet
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Statement of Cash Flow
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Trial Balance Sheet
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AP & AR Aging
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Banking Register
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Creditcard Register
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Petty Cash Register
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Parent level accounting
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Daily/weekly financials
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True COGS
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Usage vs purchase
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Budget vs actual
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Report using classes
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Multi-location reporting
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Seamless intercompany entries
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Tipout calculator (coming soon)
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On-hand inventory
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Inventory shrinkage
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Item sales and PMIX
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Suggested items count
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Cost change report
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Purchase history
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Employee labor report
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Waste tracking
and more
Why Choose CooksTime?
90%
Triple threat! CooksTime connects to your POS, vendors and banking for 90% automated bookkeeping.
Money is lost when problems go undiscovered and the longer the problem goes undiscovered, the more money you stand to lose. With 90% automation you can expect to get daily insight and more accurate reports with less work for you!
1000%
AI Agent - Coming Soon! Not only will CooksTime create the meal, it'll also feed it to you.
We're officially integrating an AI Agent into the CooksTime core. Instead of a simple report that tells you what you lost last month, CooksTime will offer advanced insight into tomorrows performance!
7%
The invisible profit leak! CooksTime captures your inventory vendors line item details and helps you identify the invisible profit leak
Most owners only see their "Total Food Cost" but CooksTime sees the price of a single head of lettuce spiking from multiple vendors. We also help identify threats by capturing with your usage vs purchases details and more.
POS Connection
CooksTime pulls data from your POS and uses it to post your sales, labor cost and calculate your prime Cost of Goods Sold
New - AI Agent
Coming Soon!
From data to insight. Instead of a manager looking at a spreadsheet, our AI agent will give you feedback like never before.
Automated Accounts Payable
CooksTime helps reduce data entry by auto uploading your invoices for accounting and inventory vendors.
Inventory Management
Simple to use inventory management software built for restaurants and bars. We capture more details and provide more insight.
Automated Banking
CooksTime helps reduce the need to make manual banking entries by auto matching or auto posting preexisting entries.
Employee Scheduling
Employee scheduling and budgeting that's designed to help control your labor cost.
Everyone works in one system - no more disconnected tools
Owner - profitability visibility and control
Accountant - automated bookkeeping, banking, ap and clean books
General Manager - daily operations and cost management
Kitchen Manager - manage food cost, ordering, recipes, waste tracking
Bar Manager - control alcohol cost, ordering, variance tracking, recipes
Banking Connections
Thanks to our partners, we work with thousands of US and Canadian banking institutions with the purpose of saving you time and driving insight.






Parent Level Accounting
Great for restaurants with multiple locations and intermingled banking transactions. Parent level accounting lets you see all of your location financials on a single report. You can also Pay multiple location invoices from a single bank account or creditcard. Easily create intercompany transactions including journal entries. Compare the cost of inventory items across locations and more.
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Management Features
CooksTime was built just restaurants, bars and nightclubs and we've got the tools to prove it!
Inventory Management
Complete inventory management for food and alcohol which includes recipe costing, ingredient tracking, counting inventory and more.


Employee Scheduling
No more spreadsheets. Our employee scheduling module can help make your restaurant scheduling more insightful. And we're excited to announce more features coming soon like Payroll and Employee Communication.
Other Management Tools
CooksTime makes it easier to manage things like petty cash, set task or leave notes.












